The Piss Christ Is Dead: Killed By The Catholic Right

I wonder if Andres Serrano, the artist who made the original “Piss Christ” installation, has the cojones to make a “Piss Mohammed” artwork.

Richard Bartholomew reports:

Following the vandalism of a print of Immersion (Piss Christ) at the Collection Lambert art gallery in Avignon, Le Monde has some background on the Civitas Institute, the Catholic Right organisation which recently mobilised a protest against the artwork:

Fr Régis de Cacqueray Valmenier is Superior of the District of France for the Society of Saint Pius X, the same Catholic traditionalist grouping to which Richard Williamson belongs; last year, he complained about Rabbi Rivon Krygier being allowed to give a lecture in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, stating that “The Paris cathedral is neither a synagogue nor a Masonic temple”. Olagnon’s scouting organisation is also an SSPX affiliate. Admiral François de Penfentenyo de Kervéréguin, meanwhile, is the son of Michel de Penfentenyo, a Catholic nationalist group who at one time headed Cité Catholique. In 2009, Aymeric Chauprade was fired from an academic position for expounding on 9/11 as an “American-Israeli conspiracy”.

Escada, meanwhile, may just be “le simple porte-parole” of Civitas, but he also runs another organisation, called Belgium and Christianity. The Belgian anti-fascist magazine ResistanceS has some background: